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April 30, 2013

A lot of modern life

is about rubbing people's noses in stuff that they find disgusting, repellent, sickening

- this sometimes seem like the main activity and underlying purpose of the mass media, backed by the highbrow artistic establishment. The idea is, of course, to desensitize us so that nothing can shock us because then we will accept evil. Bruce Charlton's Miscellany: Can you handle it?

Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 30, 2013 4:58 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Its also useful by making ordinary people continually outraged and shocked, reacting with frustration and anger. That makes us seem awful, angry, bitter, and unlikable.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 30, 2013 8:46 AM

'Rubbing people's noses in it' also serves to chase the Mayberry folks out of public life so the commielibs have even more freedom of action. Mayberry voters would rather become slaves in a commielib dreamworld than fight back.

Posted by: Scott M at April 30, 2013 12:40 PM

'Rubbing people's noses in it' also serves to chase the Mayberry folks out of public life so the commielibs have even more freedom of action. Mayberry voters would rather become slaves in a commielib dreamworld than fight back.

Posted by: Scott M at April 30, 2013 12:53 PM

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